Video Server Systems

What are Video Server Systems?

Video servers are scalable digital multi media storage devices. They vary in size and specification, storing extensive home DVD video collections all in one place and distribute film to plasma/LCD screens, projector screens and custom surround sound speaker systems included in home cinema installations or single or multi-room arrangements.

What are the benefits of Video Server Systems?

A video server system lets you sit in your sitting room to watch a film with your partner, safe in the knowledge you won’t be disturbed by the kids because they’re watching a family-friendly movie in the games room. That’s multi room tv / video, the essence of automating a smart home. The best video servers can store and distribute different films from your digital movie collection simultaneously to two, three, seven or more rooms.

Video Servers let you copy every DVD in your home to the integral hard drive. The range of video servers we supply will hold anything from 75 DVDs to over 1,800. That frees up a lot of storage space around the home and you’ll never have the hassle of DVDs being put back in the wrong cases again.
Some of our premium video server suppliers manufacture media servers with up to 6Tb (one Terabyte is equal to 125 gigabytes) of storage and they can be connected to your PC or Mac computer. With a video server controlling your multi-room video you can stream YouTube or films downloaded through iTunes as easily as slotting a DVD into your existing player.

Which Video Server Systems do we offer?

The Integrators are specialists in media server consultancy and installation and source our hardware from a number of the leading video server and multimedia server manufacturers’ systems: Escient, iMerge, Kaleidescape, Microsoft and ReQuest IQ.

The Integrators specify and install a multimedia player multi-room set-up to meet your every whim. Control not just movies but audio from multiple rooms in the house with combined video/music servers or a system that integrates your dedicated music server with the video server and even your home PC network.

Escient supplies a host of video players and servers, from the entry-level FireBall SE-D1, through the multi-zone FireBall MX-752 digital media manager and up to the Vision VX-600, a 4Tb media server capable of streaming simultaneous audio and video to its dedicated VC and VS video players.
Escient’s MP-200 is a multi room media player and when combined with the MX-752 allows you to remotely manage, browse and play DVDs, CDs, and digital music simultaneously from any connected room in the whole house through an on-screen control interface.

iMerge provides a flexible media storage solution with a hugely user-friendly control panel.
The iMerge MS5000 MediaServer combines video and multi-source music server in one unit, including High Definition 1080p (the leading standard in screen playback resolution) video to two screens at once.
Adding multiple MP1000 MediaPlayers allows more access for a genuine multi-room video solution - not just for playback but for recording DVDs to the hard drive too. Not only can you edit film and music information but a custom keyword search lets you select films by genre, actor…anything you want.
With the MS1, iMerge has created possibly the most advanced media server in the world. Combined with the XiVASafe Storage System the MS1 server can serve the most impressive home cinema and still have more to give.
Kaleidescape provides a range of servers which cover all ends of the video server market, from the budget Mini System storing 75 DVDs and accessed via a remote control, right up to the 3U Server capable of storing up to 1,800 DVDs. Both the IU Server (a reduced capacity version of the 3U) and the 3U Server allow up to 45 simultaneous video or audio playback zones and four simultaneous upload streams for recording. They can be networked to store endless amounts of multimedia to be played back via the small and easily concealed High Definition 1080p Miniplayer, or the larger HD 1080p Player, which also allows video upload and recording.

For the ultimate integrated media experience, Microsoft Media Center harnesses the power of your PC to deliver downloaded movies, music and home video, as well as your enormous film collection, to multiple PCs and laptops and the plasma screen in your living room. Microsoft Media Center is incredibly simple to use, yet powerful enough to deliver media to multiple rooms within your whole house.

ReQuest is a perfect choice for the majority of smart home automation installations.
The ReQuest IQ Intelligent Media Server is capable of acting as both a music server and video server and has four built-in hard disks to store all your DVDs and downloaded films and two internet streaming sources play digital radio from the web – a truly flexible music selection that ensures multi-room video freedom for the family. The IQ.IMS is controlled by up to eight TS.35 3.5” touch screens or TS.15 15” touch screens that can be placed in any room.
The ReQuest F.Series multimedia server can be controlled and accessed from anywhere. So with the right equipment you can even access your entire film and music collection from a second location.

Contact Us to discuss which Video Server System is best for your home multi media needs.